There's one big hurdle to thoroughly enjoying this cheerfully offbeat, fancifully romantic Kiwi comedy (well, one big hurdle besides that truly awful title) and it is this: you have to be able to sympathize with a girl who sabotages her fiancé's entire life in a misguided attempt at rekindling their love. Effervescent tomboy Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) has gotten it into her head that her eccentrically enchanted life with her devoted but struggling farm boy beau Rob (Karl Urban) has somehow soured. This, mind you, only a day or two after a marriage proposal and a sweetly sexy candlelight dinner while bathing under the stars in a backyard tub. When she trades his entire dairy herd to retrieve a stolen quilt, Lucinda gets the romantic friction she was looking for…and then some. With his strangely metaphysical sense of screwball humor, director Harry Sinclair acts as a Byronic Grimm Brother, creating a distinctively dark, whimsically magical adult fairy tale that is endearing, idyllic, endlessly clever, and totally bizarre. Recommended. [Note: DVD extras include audio commentary by writer-director Harry Sinclair (as well as audio of him blowing his nose) and star Danielle Cormack, three minutes of outtakes, a trailer, and text information about New Yorker Films. Bottom line: a standard extras package for an overall charming film.] (R. Blackwelder)
The Price of Milk
New Yorker, 87 min., PG-13, VHS: $59.95, DVD: $29.95, Nov. 19 Volume 17, Issue 6
The Price of Milk
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